Is It a Film? Is It a Book? No, It’s a Live Cinema Experience, and It’s Called ‘Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede’

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Imagine sitting down in a room with an iPad, a screen and loudspeakers. After a brief introduction to the set-up, you are in there, alone, for what is described as an 80- to 90-minute “live cinema experience.” Its title: Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede . After you look around the room a bit, you pick up the iPad. And off you are on a surreal journey. If you are now wondering what the heck I am talking about, the creator of the experience, Joe Bini , is likely smiling. Yeah, THAT Joe Bini! The creative, who in his work as an editor has collaborated with the likes of Werner Herzog , Andrea Arnold and many others. While that work is all about helping someone else’s creative vision become reality, Bini has now created something very, very different. Related Stories Music Lili Reinhart Sets Sail With BTS in the K-pop Group's New Music Video for "Swim" TV In 'The Oligarch and the Art Dealer,' 'Succession' Meets 007 for the Epstein Files Age Is it a book? Is it a movie? Well, it doesn’t really matter what you call it. What it is for sure is a sold-out offering that is part of the Inter:Active Exhibition at the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX , the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival , which runs through Sunday, March 22. And the fest program lists Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede as a live cinema experience. You really have to experience it to understand it. But let’s look at how it’s described on the festival website. You can read there that it is “an abstract memoir of Bini’s life as a film editor and storyteller.” Bini himself, in an artist statement, tells us: “ Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede is a story told by an author who refuses to be an author, so they try to c...